Like Topsy – it grew and grew.
P2 – “wonder what the total cost will end up being for the PelAir cover-up investigation” etc.
I wonder at the apathy of the tax payer and the incredible lack of press attention to this huge, waste of funds. A totally outrageous waste; a waste that need never have been; had the ATSB simply done their job properly.
There was an incident and ATSB attended, ATSB did the investigation, ATSB located the wreck, buoyed it and had the carcass ready to lift the short 10 fathoms to the surface and retrieve the ‘black-boxes’. Routine, straight forward and a necessary impost, acceptable to all. Then came the word to leave the aircraft ‘in-situ’, black-boxes and all.
Well, since then, that decision has cost not only credibility of the ATSB , exposed CASA faults and left a strong odour of incompetence and possibly corruption, but it has cost a small fortune to achieve.
Lets write off the cost of the original investigation – that’s a furry muff outlay. – we may also treat the cost of the initial report in the same manner. Then we need to examine the peripheral costs. The CASA ‘parallel’ investigation was not strictly required – not until ATSB had drawn their conclusions, up front this was a ‘straight forward’ incident; or it would have been, had CASA not gotten their knackers in the blender with ‘soft’ audit, easy forgiveness of transgressions and a very suspect change of chief pilot. So, the cost of the CASA arse covering must be added to the total and it is significant; the man hours alone expended in drafting the reports ‘attached’ to the investigation and the hours spent at ‘audit’ add up to an impressive total, this without the ‘associated’ additional costs of the exercise.
Next we must consider the cost of the Senate Committee (SSC) inquiry; I can’t imagine how much, in total, that event expended. In a good cause, absolutely necessary and completely ungrudged. Non the less, it was a significant, but unnecessary spend; money saved if ATSB had simply done their work properly, first time about.
The resulting ASRR could be added to the bill. It’s a reasonable addition, if there was no Senate inquiry, then the good Rev. Forsyth could have been at golf, untroubled. We must not forget to include the significant cost of the ‘administration’ required to support the ASRR.
Next item on the invoice – Canadian TSB report, another spin off cost stemming from the SSC inquiry; once again the total cost – all up, would be significant.
Item next: the PelAir report needs to be done for a second time. So we can, safely, double the cost for the initial investigation; there now being two of them. Insult to injury, the $AU 500,000 and change cost for retrieval of the CVR.
There are clever folk who could forensically (for a fee) detail the total cost of this debacle. This completely unnecessary, embarrassing, expensive fiasco. There are not too many would could estimate the cost in human terms; the cost of a government safety investigator and a safety watchdog acting in concert, attempting to brush an event under the mat, then trying to justify that action; then, most heinous of all, getting caught doing it.
I’ve no idea what the total fiscal cost of this shoddy, seedy little drama is. I could not even begin to quantify the international humiliation or the suspicion surrounding the MH 370 search due to Australia’s tarnished reputation. All I can say is that it is repugnant to any right minded aviation professional; it is disgusting that Dolan walks away without even a hint of apology and it is a national disgrace that ‘government’ allowed it all to happen, without censure, explanation or apology.
Toot toot.
P2 – “wonder what the total cost will end up being for the PelAir cover-up investigation” etc.
I wonder at the apathy of the tax payer and the incredible lack of press attention to this huge, waste of funds. A totally outrageous waste; a waste that need never have been; had the ATSB simply done their job properly.
There was an incident and ATSB attended, ATSB did the investigation, ATSB located the wreck, buoyed it and had the carcass ready to lift the short 10 fathoms to the surface and retrieve the ‘black-boxes’. Routine, straight forward and a necessary impost, acceptable to all. Then came the word to leave the aircraft ‘in-situ’, black-boxes and all.
Well, since then, that decision has cost not only credibility of the ATSB , exposed CASA faults and left a strong odour of incompetence and possibly corruption, but it has cost a small fortune to achieve.
Lets write off the cost of the original investigation – that’s a furry muff outlay. – we may also treat the cost of the initial report in the same manner. Then we need to examine the peripheral costs. The CASA ‘parallel’ investigation was not strictly required – not until ATSB had drawn their conclusions, up front this was a ‘straight forward’ incident; or it would have been, had CASA not gotten their knackers in the blender with ‘soft’ audit, easy forgiveness of transgressions and a very suspect change of chief pilot. So, the cost of the CASA arse covering must be added to the total and it is significant; the man hours alone expended in drafting the reports ‘attached’ to the investigation and the hours spent at ‘audit’ add up to an impressive total, this without the ‘associated’ additional costs of the exercise.
Next we must consider the cost of the Senate Committee (SSC) inquiry; I can’t imagine how much, in total, that event expended. In a good cause, absolutely necessary and completely ungrudged. Non the less, it was a significant, but unnecessary spend; money saved if ATSB had simply done their work properly, first time about.
The resulting ASRR could be added to the bill. It’s a reasonable addition, if there was no Senate inquiry, then the good Rev. Forsyth could have been at golf, untroubled. We must not forget to include the significant cost of the ‘administration’ required to support the ASRR.
Next item on the invoice – Canadian TSB report, another spin off cost stemming from the SSC inquiry; once again the total cost – all up, would be significant.
Item next: the PelAir report needs to be done for a second time. So we can, safely, double the cost for the initial investigation; there now being two of them. Insult to injury, the $AU 500,000 and change cost for retrieval of the CVR.
There are clever folk who could forensically (for a fee) detail the total cost of this debacle. This completely unnecessary, embarrassing, expensive fiasco. There are not too many would could estimate the cost in human terms; the cost of a government safety investigator and a safety watchdog acting in concert, attempting to brush an event under the mat, then trying to justify that action; then, most heinous of all, getting caught doing it.
I’ve no idea what the total fiscal cost of this shoddy, seedy little drama is. I could not even begin to quantify the international humiliation or the suspicion surrounding the MH 370 search due to Australia’s tarnished reputation. All I can say is that it is repugnant to any right minded aviation professional; it is disgusting that Dolan walks away without even a hint of apology and it is a national disgrace that ‘government’ allowed it all to happen, without censure, explanation or apology.
Toot toot.